Yarn-reeling machine



(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1.. W. SCHOPIELD'.

- YARN REELING MACHINE.

Patented Apr. 2, 1889;

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U IT D STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W ILLIAM SCHOFIELD, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

YARN-REELING MACHINE.

SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,494, dated April 2, 1889-.

Application filed January 2, 1889. Serial No. 295,140. (No model.)

bars, so, mounted and having actuating mechanism that a number or all of the spindles are simultaneously moved into diiferent angular positions While the cops onvthe spindles are being unreeled so as to prevent the last por tions of the cops slipping off of the spindles before they are reeled off thereof; and it has for its objects simplicity of construction of the operative parts of the spindle-supporting bar and the provision of a support for the upper or outer ends of the spindles when moved to a position to admit of the last portions of the cops reeling instead of slipping off the spindles, such supports for the outer ends of the spindles being then provided, as described, to preventvlateral strains on the spindles and consequent stopping of their rotation and breaking of the yarn.

My invention has for its further object to provide suitable devices attached to either the spindle bearing or supporting bar or to the supporting or bearing devices for the outer ends of the spindles, for regulating the bearing-contact between the outer ends of the spindles and supports therefor, and also to bring the said ends of all the spindles in the same or due alignment, so that all the spindles positively find their outer end support when moved to a position requiring such support.

My invention accordingly consists of the combinations, constructions, and arrangements of parts, as hereinafter more particularly described in the specification, and pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,wherein Figure l is a transverse section ofa yarnreeling machine embodying my improvements, showing the spindles in a vertical position. Fig. 2 is a like view showing the spin- 1 dies in an angular position approximating the horizontal and the supports for theirouter ends formed or made. Fig. 3 is a like view showing the movable part of said supports away from the outer ends of the spindles. Fig. 4 is a plan, partly broken away, showing the fixed bar for the supports for the outer ends of the spindle, the spindle-bearing bar, and the de= vices on the latter, and for the ends or housings of the machine, for regulating the bear= ing-contact of the outer ends of the spindles in their supports, and for alignment of said ends on said supports, the same being drawn to an enlarged scale. Fig. 5 is a detaitview, drawn to an enlarged scale, showing the fixed and movable bars forming the bearings or supports for the outer ends of the spindles, and also the adjustable brackets for fixed and movable bars, one part of said brackets being shown as detached from the other. Fig. 6 is a sectional elevation, drawn to an enlarged scale, showing the spindle bearing bar, a bracket thereon, and a spindle in position in said bracket. Fig. 7 is an elevation, drawn to an enlarged scale, of spindle-bearing-baractuating mechanism for moving the same and locking devices for holding it in its adjusted positions, and Fig. 8 is a sectional elevation showing a modified form of support or bearing devices for the outer ends of the spindles.

A represents the yarn-reeling machine, comprising ends a, connecting bars a, reel a yarn-guide bars of, and trough a of the usual or desired construction.

13 indicates the spindle bearing or support ing bar, which may be of any suitable form. In the drawings I have shown it in the form of a round solid shaft, having mounted or secured thereon at suitable intervals boxes or brackets 0, provided at one end with a step, c, and at the other with a bearing, 0', for the spindles D. The brackets or boxes 0 are adjustable on bar B by means of set-screws o (seen more plainly in Fig. 6,) and the spindles D are loose in their bearings in brackets or boxes 0, so as to revolve as the cops thereon are unreeled, the spindles, if desired, being duly retained in position in the brackets or boxes 0 by means of set-screws c in the ends 0' of the brackets C engaging with an an nular groove, d, in the spindles. (See Fig.

6.) The spindle-bearing bar B runs from end to end of the machine, if desired, and is suitably mounted in boxes or brackets b, secured to the frame-work or housings in any suitable manner or otherwise, as desired. At any convenient point along the bar B, preferably at or near its center, is secured a lever,b, having a transverse opening or notch, b through which passes the end I) of a springactuated latch, 12*, pivoted on lever b, as more plainly shown in Fig. 7, which latch end If engages with notches 12'' Win the arm or bracket 0 secured to the frame-work of the machine adjacent to the lever 12', for purposes hereinafter to be described.

At the ends of bar B, or other suitable parts along the same, are secured arms E F, having at theirouter ends set-screws e, which contact wit-l1 stops 6, secured to the frame-work of the machine, for a purpose to be hereinafter set forth.

Parallel with the bar B is located a supporting device, F, for the outer ends of the spindles when such support is required, and consists, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, of a lower bar, f, secured to brackets f bolted or otherwise attached to the frame-work of the machine, and of an upper bar, f, hinged or pivoted at one edge or otherwise, as desired, to the lower bar, f, so that the bar f can be moved into and out of contact with bar f to admit of the outer ends of the spindles finding bearings between or in the meeting surfaces of the bars f f, such meeting surfaces being preferably provided with registering transverse grooves or bearings f in line with the spindles on bar B. The said registering transverse grooves f in the meeting surfaces of the bars f f support the outer ends of the spindles when dropped or in an approximat ing horizontal position above, below, and on the sides of the same, so as to form an allaround bearing for said spindle ends to prevent straining movement of the spindles in any direction.

The brackets f may be of any suit-able construction; but I prefer to make the same in two parts, one sliding within the other and having a slot and set-screw connection of the well-known form, so that the height of the bars ff may be'adjusted, the parts of said bracket being more plainly shown in Fig. 5. The bar f has a link-connection, f with a lever, f, pivoted at f to the trough a", or other suitable part of themachine, so that by actuating lever f 4 the barf is closed upon or moved ofi of the barf.

The operation is as follows: \Vhen the cops are to be placed upon the spindles in the form of machine shown, the spindles are thrown into a vertical position, as indicated in Fig. 1, by depressing lever Z) until the end 11 of latch b on said lever engages with the notch b in arm b said latch engagement firmly holding bar B and the spindles thereon in said described position. The barf of supporting device F is then off of bar f, the actuating-leverf being in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3. The greater portion of the cops is unreeled when the spindles are in the vertical position, as described, and as soon as this is elfected the lever b is then raised, the latch-bar b being released in the act of raising said lever to turn bar B and drop the spindles D to an angular position approaching the horizontal, at which position their outer ends come in contact with or rest upon the hearings or grooves f on the lower bar, f, of the supporting device F, as indicated in Fig. 3, the latch-bar b meanwhile engaging with notch b in arm I) to lock the barB and spindles D in said last described position. The leverf is then moved to the position shown in Fig. 2, to close barf upon barf to complete or provide an all-around hearing or support for the outer ends of the spindles, as shown in said last-named figure, so that the pulling strain of unreeling the cop cannot laterally move the ends of the spindles in any direction, and they do not bind in their bearings 0. Consequently stoppage of rotation of the spindles and breaking of the yarn due to such described binding of the spindles in their bearings c is avoided. After the cops are all unreeled the bar f is thrown olf of bar fby reversely moving lever f so as to release the ends of the spindles from their support F and admit of raising them to a vertical position for a further supply of cops. The pressure of the outer ends of the spindies in the SllPl'JOl'tll'lg device F is regulated by adjusting the screws e in the arms E on shaft B, so as to vary the extent or limit of throw of said arms against the stops 6, which of course also correspondingly varies the limit of movement of bar B and spindles D. After the spindles are dropped to the support F, and if any of the spindles at either end of the bar B are out of alignment with the others, by adjusting the screws 6 against the stops 6 in the proper manner, all the spindles are brought into the same alignment. If desired, however, the same result can be effected by vertically adjusting the brackets f so as to elevate or depress bar f, and hence the latter, if deemed necessary, may be in one or more parts or sections, in which case the bar f is correspondingly divided, and each section thereof has its separate actuating devices f f. Instead of using the fixed and movable bars f f a single movable bar or shaft, f, with step-bearings f may be substituted, as indicated in Fig.8.

I do not herein claim the movable spindle supporting or hearing bar B in itself, as it forms the subjectrmatter-of another pending application, filed February 23, 1888, Serial No. 265,059. As the novel features of my invention may be varied without departing from the spirit of the invention, I do not limit myself to the same as illustrated and described.

What I claim is 1. The combination, in a yarn-reeling mawith, and actuating devices for said bar 13 and "su pportingdevice F, substantially as set forth.

3. In a yarn-reeling machine, the combination, with a movable spindle-supporting bar, B, and its actuating device, of the supporting device F, comprising a fixed bar, f, and a movable bar, f, and actuating mechanism for the latter, substantially as set forth.

4. In a yarn-reeling machine, the combination, with movable spindle-supporting bar B and its actuating mechanism, of the arms E E,

having set-screws c secured to bar 13, stops 6 on the frame of the machine, and a supporting device, F, and actuating mechanism therefor, substantially as set forth.

5. In a yarn-reeling machine, the combination, with a movable spindle-supporting bar, B, and its actuating mechanism, of the vertically-adjustable barf, brackets f composed of sections, one of which is a sliding section having a set-screw attachment with the other sec= tion for adjusting bar f, bar f hinged to bar f, and actuating mechanism for barf, substantially as set forth.

6. In a yarn-reeling machine, the combination, with a movable spindle-supporting bar, B, of the spindle-end-supporting device F, hav= ing all-around bearings for the spindle ends, substantially as set forth,

. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM SCHOFIELD.

Witnesses:

S. J. VAN STAvoREN, FREDK. A; SOBERNHEIMER. 

